A, i want to talk about a movie franchises for a minute. T write about the book starwars, lord of the rings. And you point out, rather a, in a rather lovely way, that there was, long before those two iconic names. There was sherlock holmes. And that arthur conan doyle kind of a tried to kill him off and failed because people were so eager for the next episode. A lot of times they just don't care. They're just going to keep entertaining you for a while.
Once it was The Shadow radio show; now it's the podcast Serial. Is every old storytelling medium new again? Frank Rose, author of The Sea We Swim In, concedes that some things remain sacred--from the power of a great hook to the hope that great stories never end. But he also thinks the Internet has led to new kinds of stories, ones that are not just entertaining, but immersive, and whose worlds are more richly imaginative than ever--even as they leave increasingly little to our imagination.